We have prepared this ebook just for you, so that you can see what steps should be taken when starting or continuing the adventure of promoting your restaurant on Facebook.
In this ebook, we have prepared a tutorial for you on how to communicate a change to the method for accepting orders to your employees. We will discuss this process in detail and suggest what to pay attention to. We have prepared this e-book especially for you to show how to work with the food online ordering portal.
I will show you how to use UpMenu and online sales to increase the profits of your restaurant. Order a presentation. We have created these ebooks with you the restaurateur in mind. In them you will find a lot of tips on a variety of subjects. We share our knowledge about restaurant marketing, creating business plans and motivating employees; we suggest how to get the most out of food ordering portals and how to make money from your restaurant loyalty program software.
In each book, we include helpful advice from our experts and professionals. What will you will find out about the strengths of UpMenu from our ebooks? The first and unique strength is a reliable online food ordering system that we offer to owners and restaurant managers. Forget about the lack of time and poor organisation in your restaurant. Sell online!
In our books, we describe in detail the benefits of an online food ordering system that operates under your own brand and works from your own website. Each piece of advice in these ebooks will be of use to an owner, a marketing specialist and a restaurant manager alike. If you want to get off to a good start with your new business, or are planning to expand it with effective marketing, UpMenu is there with useful advice for you.
Increase your sales with an online food ordering system. Start earning more with online orders. Let your customers order food from your website or through your restaurant's mobile application. How to create a restaurant business plan Ebook Preparing a business plan is the foundation of any marketing strategy and doubles your chances of succeeding in opening your own restaurant. Subject to status and grades obtained, students holding ICM Diploma qualifications at levels 4, 5, 6 and 7 are accepted onto Undergraduate and Post Graduate degree programmes offered by institutions in continents across the globe.
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Ingredient choices and cooking preferences One of the system features gathered in the requirements analysis was to enable the GUI to allow meals to contain optional ingredients that could be interchanged and also to provide the option to select the cooking preference of an ingredient. This requirement was given a priority 1 and the database schema was built to allow this behaviour by allocating both ingredients and prepared ingredients a category.
For any ingredient that was classed as an optional ingredient within a meal, could then be interchanged with any ingredient within the same category. The cooking preference was slightly easier as every ingredient could contain a preference and the GUI would only ask for input if the preferences contained two or more options. The component of the GUI was split into two sides with the optional ingredients on the left hand side and the ingredients that required a cooking preference choice on the right hand side.
Tables 5. Implementation Figure 5. Optional grid showing the meal ingredients. Optional grid showing the options of the meal ingredients. Preference grid showing the ingredients within the meal that requires a cooking preference. Preference grid showing the preference options of an ingredient within the meal.
Table 5. Grid Colour Illustration Yellow Original optional ingredient replaced. Figure 5. This grid algorithm used a basic layout, where each component appeared one after the other, but with the added functionality of auto expanding rows.
Recall, that this grid would show the meals and drinks, but would be separated into blocks of sections with each section starting on a new row. The added problem was that the grid would not be a basic grid but column based.
An example would be, an 8 x 8 grid could represent as a 16 x 4 grid. This sub-section explains how the system would visually display the meals. The border would be updated depending on the index of that meal within the database.
Red 1 Compulsory ingredient low on stock. Orange 2 Optional ingredient out of stock. Yellow 3 Optional ingredient low on stock. Blue 4 No stock issues. Black 5. The orders stored in the database, which were created using the order application, would be accessed by the kitchen GUI. An order start button would update the status of the order, giving the waiters feedback on the order status.
Once all items within the order were complete the waiter would be automatically informed and the order removed from the kitchen display once collected. To help the readability of the kitchen GUI, row colours within the table were implemented. The tables would also display statistics about the order including elapsed kitchen time, order progress1 and section progress2.
The GUI used numerous techniques to make the input of data as easy as possible including the use of wildcard character searching, consistent design layout and validation checks with user prompts. This section will now go into the implementation details of the pricing algorithm using pseudocode to show the techniques used. As with most tree structure algorithmic solutions, the code solution used recursion. The fully coded version of the algorithm can be found in Appendix E.
The JavaDoc could then be used to provide assistance to any future developer. Version control systems also known as Revision control such as Mercurial manage the changes to documents storing each backup in its own revision with the ability to restore back to a particular version in the event of debugging. Implementation For this project, each iteration within the development methodology utilised the version control system by archiving and saving each prototype. The next chapter documents the results by demonstrating the working system.
The layout is set out to show the chronological order in how you would use the system similar to a walk through. The data inputted into the system was real data from two menus used by a Beefeater Grill [6] pub in Ormskirk, Lancashire. The following screenshots show some of the data input forms for inputting the menus and associated ingredients. Please note that validation will not been shown within the results as the database design took care of the majority of the validation.
All the forms kept a consistent layout, with add, save and delete command buttons performing the operations. For any list or table that held more than a few items, a searching facility was provided. Results Figure 6. Figure 6. Results 6. Figures 6. In Figure 6. Table 6. Property Result Menu: Height The height of a sub grid within the main grid.
Menu: Width The width of a sub grid within the main grid. Menu: Text Size Text size of the text within the main grid. Menu: Column Groups The amount of sub grids from left to right within the main grid. Menu: Character Limit per line The maximum amount of characters per line for the item buttons. Menu: Transparency [0,1] How transparent the image behind the text is for the item buttons.
The form also contains similar properties for the menu section and colour selectors for the waiter calls. Unfortunately as this was a priority 3 requirement, only a couple of graphs were implemented. The screenshots are ordered to give the reader an idea of the steps involved in order. The next chapter will discuss how the software system was tested. The tests did not just test the code directly but also tested some of the non-functional aspects of the system 7.
Recall, that with this development methodo- logy, testing is carried out at the end of each iteration. Listing 7. This testing technique was performed at the same time as user acceptance testing with the feedback used to alter any important concerns.
An example where user feedback was pivotal was in the initial design where the GUI implemented lists that displayed the menus, sections and tables. However, this brought around the design decision to change these lists into grids which the users found to be much easier to use.
Usability inspection is where the developer instead of the end user inspects the user interface. Therefore the developer tested the time complexity of the amount of clicks required to create an order. The worst case scenario: 1. Select a table 2 clicks. Select a meal 1 click. Meal has o amount of optional ingredients with all optional ingredients being removed or swapped 2o clicks.
Meal also has p amount of ingredients each requiring a preference choice 2p clicks. The best case scenario: 1.
No table selected4 1 click. Meal has 0 optional ingredients and 0 preference choices. Repeat step 2 for m amount of meals m clicks. Testing 5. The order contains only 1 suborder. Hence the time complexity is of polynomial complexity in the worst case scenario and linear com- plexity in the best case scenario. The grid that displayed the items in the centre of the GUI, used an algorithm to try and keep a consistent grid layout, even on the addition of new items.
However the disadvantage was the amount of blank cells within the grid that were unusable due to this algorithm. Another problem was the use of both images and text on the item buttons. Hence either images or text should be chosen but not a mixture of the two. The next chapter concludes the report. It also discusses possible future development ideas. This meant that some of the lower priority requirements had to be scrapped. However, if more time became available the following could be implemented.
This all beckons on whether or not Java was the best programming language to use to generate the best looking GUI. Maybe a web developed GUI could have been a better alternative but with the developer having little experience in web development this would not have been ideal. This would give the system the ability to reserve and allocate tables. Conclusion 8. Obviously the database schema does not currently support the storage of the cooking instructions so there are added implications.
The time to cook the individual ingredients could also be included within this function helping the chef with the organisation of the cooking. The generation of a management web application, could allow access to the statistics and data from anywhere in the world thus allowing the managers to keep check on the business. He also felt that the proposed features were slightly unrealistic and some even unnecessary.
For the general project, the author felt that important aspects of research were not undertaken including interviews with restaurant owners and user questionnaires. This would have provided good insight into existing solutions. The skills attained have been both technical and individual with the main individual skill being project manage- ment which required good time keeping and management of the workload. Volume 14 Issue 1 —26, April Software Features.
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